Twice in the last two years, I have handed over this column to ChatGPT, not out of laziness, jerk, but to see how the technology governments can’t shut up about it progressing. The time has come to do it again.

The first time I did it, I thought the results were fine. Nothing special, didn’t really contain any humor or sarcasm, but the words were coherent, or at least coherent enough (who am I to judge?) that I saw potential.

Last year, it got better. Not by leaps and bounds, but noticeably, and I said as much.

This year, ChatGPT has improved quite a bit, I think. 

I don’t know if you use Artificial Intelligence (AI) at all, or which AI you prefer. For me, I don’t really do anything with it. I forget it exists, when not being inundated with news stories about it, because I’ve lived my whole life without it and it doesn’t occur to me. I’m sure my kids will be taught by it at some point, but for the rest of us, we have to actively seek it out to even think about it.

Soon enough, we won’t be able to escape it. As it grows in applications – sorry, code writers, but you’re writing yourself out of business as these machines can do that now for free – the electricity needed to power it will drive up the prices for everyone. There is no such thing as a “free term paper,” it turns out.

But how close is it to really coming off as human, or........

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